I've been getting this forward for Days now from various sources.... I won't name them, that would be a breach of trust and stuff. besides, I'm sure most of you know these friends of mine. of course, it's not their fault and most of you might have also forwarded this message around. Don't worry, read the post. :o)

Frankly, If I had not been better aware of the situation, chances are that I'd also go forwarding these mails around the globe. So if you just forwarded a hundred copies of the mail, feel free to forward another hundred copies of the second bit as a public service update. :o)

SHOCKING TRUE STORY: (INDIA)

A woman at a Gas nightclub (Mumbai) on Saturday night was taken by 5 men, who according to hospital and police reports, gang raped her before dumping her at Busstand Mumbai. Unable to remember the events of the evening,tests later confirmed the repeat rapes along with traces of rohypnol in her blood.

Rohypnol, date rape drug is an essentially a small sterilization pill. The drug is now being used by rapists at parties to rape AND sterilize their victims. All they have to do is drop it into the girl's drink. The girl can't remember a thing the n! ext morning, of all that had taken place the night before. Rohypnol, which dissolves in drinks just as easily, is such that the victim doesn't conceive from the rape and the rapist needn't worry about having a paternity test identifying him months later. The Drug's affects ARE NOT TEMPORARY - they are PER! MANENT. Any female that takes it WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO CONCEIVE. The weasels can get this drug from anyone who is in the vet school or any university. It's that easy, and Rohypnol is about to break out big on campuses everywhere. Believe it or not, there are even sites on the Internet telling people how to use it.

Please forward this to everyone you know, especially girls.

Girls, be careful when you're out and don't leave your drink unattended. (added - Buy your own drinks, ensure bottles or cans received are unopened or sealed; don't even taste someone else's drink) There has already been a report in Singapore of girls drink been Spiked by Rohypnol. Please make the effort to forward this to everyone you know.

For guys - Pls inform all your female friends and relatives, remember you also have sisters.

" Your life is God's gift to you. What you do for others is your gift To God"

Friends:- Please Pass this message to your friends.

Guys!! Don't fall for that so easily....

Rohypnol is not as dangerous as this little story makes it out to seem.

In actual fact, Rohypnol acts as a simple sedative and has been prescribed for many years by psychologists on patients who suffer from Insomnia.

Even though Rohypnol acts as a brilliant sleep device, it also has the side effect of causing amnesia (loss of memory). Usually, the memory loss is not totally blanked out. The memory can be recovered with the massage of time. Infact, the recall of lost memory can be accelerated by means of hypnotism and has been successful in almost every clinical trial.

Coming to its sterilization symptom. That was one of the reasons that psychologists were advising small dosages. Rohypnol, if used in excess, has been known to induce sterilization in some females. This is not a proven fact, but surveys seem to indicate that it is true. There is no conclusive evidence of this claim.

Yet, the reason why Rohypnol was really taken off the prescription lists and has become a restricted drug around the world is due to it's use as a date-rape drug. The memory loss and willing passiveness of the subject makes rape an easy feat.

The American Drug Association and FDA officially called for the drug to be restricted for the date-rape scene. Since then, feminists and other liberation groups have taken to slandering the drug based on its (assumed!) ability to cause sterilization.

Rohypnol, even when sold in India, is restricted and it is mandatory that all manufacturers of the drug include a bright purple/blue synthetic coloring to the tablets so that when dissolved in water or any drink, it is clearly visible. Besides, it releases a distinct odor (mandatory by law), even the veterinarian version of the drug features these visual and olfactory warnings.

Don't be afraid of people solely based on one side of the story. Be cautious all the time, but Rohypnol is not something to be feared, it's to be avoided and dealt with rationally.

Just because something does'nt look like Rohypnol, does'nt mean there's no Rohypnol in it. Similarly, Rohypnol is not the only date-rape drug out there. there are thousands of date-rape drugs in the market. Most of them are undeclared.

Trust me, if you get date-raped, and you did everything in your power to ensure that Rohypnol was'nt in the glass, trust me, there are at least 12 ways of administrating other drugs that are less visible, and between 2 to 20 times more potent.

Trust me, I know! :o)

Kaydeeyoh!Jim....

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All in all, the world's not half as bad a place as some people make it out to be. If people start jumping wildly about Rohypnol, they'll be mighty surprised when they find that their date-rapes are commited using more than 60 different drugs. If you've been dateraped, the chances of someone using Rohypnol is almost nil. It's less than 1/60! The reason is the Rohypnol scare has made rapists worried. they're using worse drugs because they're scared of the truble that Rohypnol can put them in. We're encouraging a terrible state of affairs through BAD INFORMATION DISSEMENATION! Please avoid spreading half the news and messing up the lives of the other 8 Billion people around you.

hey I think I received that mail as well. Didn't care to forward it to anyone for a sheer lack of interest in forwarding mails. Also I guess I knew very few girs who pubbed n dated at that time!( had just begun college)Hmmmm... Now I'm glad I didn't.

Well, It's an odd situation really, in general, I've found that Indian males are way more desperate about trying to procure females for sexual reasons than most of the developed and developing countries.

Females also have a powerful sexual drive, but it's phenomenally muted due to societal pressure. Also, When a female gets her hands on a potential victim, he really has no bad feelings about it. There's no odd taste in the mouth and the guys, being sexually desperate as it is, enjoy a good ride, at no ones expense.

Date-rape is not a very popular phenomenon in this country for a reason. It's not because Indians lack the drugs, it's not because Indian females dont drink at the drop of a hat, it's not because of a million other reasons. The main reason is that date-rape is something of an elite issue, an uneducated man for instance, would never even dream of committing the crime (except for a few Einstein-brains out there). The idea is just too far beyond them. Even if they do get the idea, they'd more likely settle down to jumping their quarry on the way back from the fields than settle down to dropping a drug in her cooking.

We would require an educated male, with access to the drug, as also being able to place himself in a position to conveniently administer it under the cover of friendly stealth. If I wanted to rape somebody, it would be more convenient to just jump them in a dark alley than to plot and plan the entire scene with the drug.

Now there could be one situation where date-rape is the only way to get that sexual fulfillment. If a guy had it in mind to take sexual pleasure/excitement of a colleague or a relative, date-rape is the ideal choice. And the interesting thing about date-rape is the issue of consent. It's common knowledge that once under the influence of the drug, you can have total control of your victim, kinda like the intoxicating ability of the vampires of Transylvania.

These two situations are probably the most appropriate ones for date-rape and I dare say, not many have the guts or the mental framework in place, to go through with the entire date-rape shuffle without an ample chance of prior detection.

It does happen in India, and it might well happen in Hyderabad. But I can't say how big an issue it is here in this city. Nevertheless, I presume it's not very rare since there is a huge call-center crowd here and the environment sketched out by call-center life provides an ideal date-rape wire-frame with a regular party scene, late nights and an almost 50:50 ratio of men:women.

Beyond this, date-rape, in my eyes, is the last resort of a desperate man (or woman<-these rarely ever get reported).

Vola! Jim,from date rape to call centers to personal ethos! Looks like u've had one hell of a field trip!:)i couldn't resist but re-comment!

though your idea of date rape being an "upperclass" act seems plausible, I think it's more a middle class "scene". I do not know how much I can justify my train of thought. But I'll try my best.

All my so called Upperclass society friends are regular party poopers. They have boyfrds/girlfrds even from the age of 13. They are always seen in the company of their bfs/gfs. (sometimes it does get a lil nauseating too.. all the "LOVE" u know..). Now most of them go around with the ultimate idea of getting laid.. I dont see a point why the guy even has to go so far as to date-rape her.. Cause most of the time the girls are so hard drunk that a drug would only seem redundant!

As for the below middle class( mind you I am talking about the situation in South India Only. Not having travelled much, I am a lil region bound!), the socio-economic n traditional ties make them super desperate. But they are too tied up.

I've seen such cases in college. My college is a perfect example of what happens when u are tied up all your life and suddenly are given unbridled freedom! When these people find themselves working for big names like infosys n wipro ( although the work is worse than a grading job, mostly data entry n testing) and drawing impressive salaries, they somehow feel that the money buys them sexual freedom as well.

Now they start looking for class n grace which they themselves lack ! (i think that's the case with the female sex). Either way, their newly earned sexual liberation does not find enough vent! Somehow they just fail to make the mark! the moves are never made.. The end result is a marriage! I have never seen more sexually frustrated men n women. It's a vicious circle...

as for the middle class, that's i think where I belong! they are neither too tied up nor too liberated! These are the poeple u find in call centers. With average to above average command over English ( i am not using the word good here.. ) they try hard to impress the opposite sex. Experimenting is the in thing in the Middle class society. Hitting pubs n discs gives us cheap thrills!

They are always in limbo, who's to take the first step?Staying away from home makes the women more vulnerable( and bold n assertive too i think) and the men more adventurous.( I donot know and somehow think improbable that women would resort to date raping their male counterparts except when the man is a subordinate). Bottled up libidos and a yes-no situation i think may drive the subject to resort to date rape!

there .. that's what i think can happen in a city like Hyderabad! :) As for you being not-sociable, that's not true at all.. I think I've said this before..don't mind saying it again.... I find your company most delightful, both online n offline!

As I mentioned earlier, date-rape is very probable in the call-center scene. There, I focused on all call-center going people. No discrimination between class, sect or whatever. :)

Among the elite and rich, there is definitely the possibility of date-rape. I have a lot of friends from that strata from Hyderabadi society from the days when we were still staying on rent. Stayed at 'Pasha Court' and was in 'Jubilee Hills' for a good period of time. (stayed twice at 'PC', once before and once after we shifted to Delhi and back.

Believe you me, the possibility is not only great, it's tremendous. With lowered barriers and an increased liking toward their peers' girlfriends, or boyfriends (it's not unheard of!), the quiet neatness of the date-rape package holds out a golden snitch (Harry Potter anyone?) to these sexual predators. They don't want the body for the fact that it's a body, they want it because it's not theirs....

I've spoken at great length to some of these people regarding the issue and my discoveries are everything and shocking!

It's strange to see how these things surface and flutter just under our noses and we don't notice them, or believe that they even exist. But they do, and it's true....

And it's true, I don't appear very unsocial. The truth nevertheless remains that I am, I just try to overcome my social fears by forcing myself into social situations where behaving 'like others do' is my only open option.